Abstrakt
This volume is a direct result of the Theatre About Science Conference, held in November 2021 in Coimbra, Portugal. Most of the articles build upon presentations given at the conference, but some were written specifically for this publication.
On the occasion of the centenary of Karel Čapek)s play R.U.R (Čapek, 1920), the Švanda Theatre prepared a presentation of a unique project, THEaiTRE, conceived by a Czech innovator Tomáš Studeník, which examines whether artificial intelligence can write a play. Within a few months, the computer generated images from the life of a robot that has to face the joys and sorrows of everyday life. And it revealed to us how it perceives basic human issues such as birth, dying, the desire for love, the search for jobs, or aging.